A Hands-on Course on Mechatronics, Based on Modular Production Systems

Tohid Alizadeh, Mohamad Mosadeghzad

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Abstract

Nowadays, it is fairly difficult to find industrial systems which are solely electrical, mechanical, or pneumatic, and not a combination of them. This brings up the importance of mechatronics courses, to prepare the students for the related jobs, where they need to deal with mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems and should have skills in programming industrial controllers, working with sensors, actuators, and industrial communication systems. In this paper, the details of a mechatronics course developed at the robotics and mechatronics department of the Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan is presented. The course is called ROBT402 - Robotic/mechatronic system design and is developed using a modular production system (MPS) which resembles a typical production line in a factory. Different stations of MPS are considered separately and then combined with each other. The course is delivered in the last semester of the undergraduate program and gives the students hands-on experience and provides them the required skills to work as an automation engineer. The course concludes with a project, which is done in groups, to evaluate the students.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1744-1749
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728116983
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2019
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019 - Tianjin, China
Duration: Aug 4 2019Aug 7 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period8/4/198/7/19

Keywords

  • FESTO MPS
  • Mechatronics
  • mechatronics course
  • modular production system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Control and Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence

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